#brooks range

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Dalton Highway, through the Brooks Range

Taken June 2023

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Caribou, or tutu in Inupiat, traverse the snowy heart of Alaska’s Brooks Range. Each spring, caribou all across the North American Arctic begin extraordinary migrations toward their calving grounds.

Photographs by Katie Orlinsky

[plethoraworldatlas]

The Brooks Range is essential for the Alaska Native peoples who live, hunt, and fish in Northwest Alaska. It's home to the world's only remaining populations of migrating caribou, and dozens of migratory and boreal bird species, from Blackpoll Warblers to Arctic Loons. The Ambler Road proposal puts the Brooks Range and everything within it at risk. If built, this will not be a simple road, but a 211-mile industrial corridor that would threaten North America's largest protected and roadless region, as well as the food security and clean water of Alaska Native Tribes. It will cut through 1,200 river crossings, thousands of acres of wetlands, and migration pathways.

Sign now

[dreamtravels]

Brooks Range, Alaska by Edgar Campos

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

A Connection to Our Wilder Selves (Katmai National Park & Preserve) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I captured this image at the Falls Platform with a view looking to the northeast at Brooks Falls while observing a brown bear in Katmai National Park. The image is of a male brown bear on top of the Falls waiting for salmon to make the jump and attempt to catch it to eat. I pulled back on the focal length to capture more of the surrounding waterfall.

[meowchela]

random ass lps popular thought but i literally dont understand people who treat brooke like shes innocent solely because her mom is shitty??? like to me it seems like a very clear "villain origin story that explains why they are the way they are but doesn't redeem them". her mom is neglectful and abusive, yes, but a lot of her actions through the series are like. completely divorced from that conflict. brooke may be taking ques from her mom with the whole cutthroat social attitude she has going on but her actions are still very much her own, like she only got the baseline ideology of "you need to stay at the top to have any worth" from her mom and everything else (the manipulation, cheating, blackmail, etc) is all stuff she chose to do herself to attain that goal. and even THEN she's doing it all completely to serve herself, her mom couldn't care less about her daughter's status in high school. brooke probably knows this and is doing whatever she can to derive self worth from her social status alone because she's all too aware that her mom just doesnt give a shit. so everything she does is still on her

i guess a more succinct way of putting it is like. brooke's backstory is more of a frame for her mindset than something you should feel sorry for her over, yknow? because as badly as she's treated at home she turns around and treats everyone around her the exact same way. abuse is cyclical and it's crystal clear that brooke is willingly continuing the cycle because she's obsessed with the power it gives her, power that was stolen from her that she's now stealing from others. and the kicker here is she HAD chances to make positive changes, both with her dad treating her nicer while he was still alive which establishes that she does know how to be kind as well as savy being willing to reconnect and give her genuine friendship again which could've helped her out of this toxic mindset. but she threw both of those chances away because she's so power hungry and is CHOOSING to continue acting like her mom because that's what gets her the most power/worth.

she needs help, but she doesn't deserve forgiveness or sympathy because of all the heinous shit she's done. also, you can't help someone unless they accept the help and/or are willing to change, and we've seen that brooke is NOT willing to change at all. idk man i just dont think we should be so fast to absolve her of accountability when she hasn't shown any willingness to overcome her circumstances. like not even "oh i want to change but things are so hard" no she doesn't want to change full stop. shes stuck in her mindset and that's her downfall and that's the point

anyway brooke would fucking love marina and the diamonds. unrelated to everything

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

Prove what kind of Gay tmtmtm you are: QUICK! What's Jason Bateman's best/sexiest role?

This is going to sit in drafts while I try and reason out why this is a thing I'm being asked to do and WHY this is being asked specifically, but the Best Bateman is:

Why Pepper Brooks from DODGEBALL of all things?

The himbo energy. The famous meme line in the below gif? "It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see how well it pays off for them." The previous line gives SO MUCH CONTEXT in case you forgot lmao (Honorable mention to the bisexual seat adjustment here.)

Cotton McKnight : "I'm being told that Average Joe's does not have enough players and will be forfeiting the championship match."

Pepper Brooks : "It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em."

THE ENERGY. I feel like if this character were introduced today the gays would be ALL OVER HIM.

[thorsenmark]

Looking Out a Plane Window on a Flight to Brooks Camp by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: An easily mesmerizing plane window view I had looking to the southeast with King Salmon and then across portions of Katmai National Park off in the distance.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Whenever there’s swelling orchestral music in a movie or show or game, I always like to imagine that there’s a full orchestra, on location, in universe, just… out of frame.

[sea-jello]

people who want to audition i think this is a helpful list

[bruggle]

When I say that Brook and X butt heads when they first meet, I mean it

"Brook, I need to turn in my report to Commander Signas," X explains. "Stay here and do not move, okay? I'll be out in just a second." Brook rolls her eyes as she nods. X, however, doesn't take that as an answer. "I mean it, Brook," he sternly repeats. "Do not leave this hallway." Brook groans, giving him an exasperated look. "Fine," she grumbles. "I won't." X gives her one last meaningful glance before turning to the door and entering the room.

And now.

She waits.

And it's boring.

Brook lets out a huff as she looks off to the side. Seriously, who does X think he is? She's not some kid; she's more than capable of taking care of herself, thank you. With that, she decides that maybe she'll take a small look around. It won't take too long, and she won't wonder off too far. She just... wants to see. The Maverick Hunter Headquarters are... the stuff of legend, after all. Not even the Guild has half the equipment here.

Besides, what could she possibly hurt?

With one final glance back to the door X had went into, Brook decides to chance it and head off on her own. There's... not too many landmarks; reploids don't need to make mental maps nearly as much as humans do, after all. But it's all cool to see nonetheless. She's so engrossed in her exploring that she doesn't hear the footsteps that come up behind her.

"How on Earth did you manage to get in here, kid?" asks a... somewhat familiar voice, as Brook feels the hood of her coat get picked up. She yelps as her feet leave the ground, leaving her facing... Massive? Matisimo? Brook doesn't quite remember his name. Just that it started with an 'M'. The green clad reploid had been there in the Maverick outbreak she'd helped out in, Brook recalls. ...It speaks volumes on how entrenched she'd been in wandering that she didn't notice him. Or a testament to his self control for such a huge reploid to be able to sneak around.

"Well?" The hammer weilding hunter asks. "Seriously, kid. You're not supposed to be here. You could get hurt." Oh. Of course he wouldn't recognize her. She'd been Minnow at the time. Even so, his tone is quite annoying. And Brook can't help but glare at him for it. The green clad reploid merely raises an eyebrow at her. He lets out a sigh as he turns back towards the hallway she had just left. "Alright then," he muses. "Guess we're going to Signus."

Wait.

That's where X is at.

Crap.

Well, there went any chance of not getting in trouble...

As the reploid carrying Brook makes his way back through the corridor, she notices a sight that makes her heart sink.

A very peeved looking X.

Wonderful.

"Oh, didn't realize you were back, X," the green clad reploid says. "I'd stay and chat, but there seems to have been a stowaway." At least his tone is amused.

"Thank you, Massimo," X replies, and there it is. That's his name. "I'm afraid she's not quite a stowaway. She's with me. This is Brook." And oh. That look. X is definitely not happy with her.

"...What?" Massimo asks, completely confused. "You babysitting or something?" X heaves a sigh.

"Something like that," he admits. "It's a long story. But, I will be speaking with her about wandering off when I *specifically told her not to.*" Brook can't help but wince. He's absolutely mad. Massimo shrugs, finally letting Brook down from his hold on her coat. And before she can even take a step, X has her hand in his grip. "In any case, I hope we can catch up later," X continues, not letting her go. "Maybe I'll be able to explain everything. For now, however, I unfortunately have to leave. There are a few things I need to prepare."

Massimo nods, waving to them. X waves in kind as he drags Brook off. Mindful of his pace and grip, of course, but definitely dragging her. It's when they exit the headquarters, and X still has not let go that Brook begins to protest. "X, seriously," she complains. "I'm not a kid! You can let go of my hand now!"

"Oh really?" he snaps. "Because I seem to recall telling you to *stay put.* And yet, you seem to have been unable to do so." Brook snorts, beginning to try and wriggle her hand out of his grasp. It's fruitless, of course; gentle as he is, X is still a reploid with reploid strength. He's not letting go unless he wants to.

And he definitely isn't going to.

But she's going to make her displeasure at the fact known.

[writesailingdreams]

This probably comes from a lack of diversity in my found family exposure but the Straw Hats sure seem distinct in not having age influence how they bond/relate to each other.

Some of it probably comes from the fact that the second youngest member (Luffy*) is technically the person ultimately in charge, but beyond that...

Like similar aged shipmates vibe in certain ways, but being older doesn’t necessitate that the younger shipmates see or treat them as if they are older e.g. pseudo parental.

*Usopp is older by like a month

[cleoselene]

🎶✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers ✨

oh yay thanks for sending me this one, I loooove music asks!

gonna pick the songs that are my current obsessions. I definitely go through phases with songs.

Tori Amos - Bang

2018's Native Invader was an album I 100% slept on (mostly because someone who is now an ex-friend really hated it and heard it before me and told me how much it sucked and like the loser follower I tend to be, I took her word for it and only gave the album a cursory listen) and now I am discovering how fucking brilliant it is. Tori has 17 original studio albums, Native Invader is #16, and long past the point when her annoying "fans" claimed she'd lost her touch. But they're wrong. She is still vividly creating even while turning 60 next month -- at this point so many musicians have stopped writing and just go tour the hits. We are BLESSED as fans of hers that she is so prolific. Another way in which she reminds me of Taylor -- both of them seem to have this compulsion to be constantly creating music and have scores of unpublished songs because like, writing songs is what I imagine both of these ladies do with like 90% of their time. Native Invader is a politically-charged album, written in the wake of Trump's election, and "Bang" is about the violent hatred Trump and his election fostered against immigrants. It's really powerful and structured gorgeously. Getting this album on vinyl changed everything for me, because vinyl really allows the instrumentation to shine.

hahaha I'm rambly so putting the other four behind a cut. HOPE YOU DON'T REGRET INVITING ME TO WAX POETIC ABOUT MUSIC

2. Taylor Swift - Maroon

I have been living a Maroon Appreciation Life since October 21, 2022. This is more or less tied for me as the best song that Taylor has written with Jack (tied with Getaway Car for me) and I really wish had been put in the main Eras setlist, because I think the full instrumentation and staging and costuming and lighting for a Maroon performance would have been just 🔥🔥🔥

It is, much to my surprise, my actual favorite song on Midnights. And this surprises me because i am SUCH a ho for when Taylor writes with Aaron Dessner, and don't get me wrong, the Dessner tracks on Midnights on my favorite. It's the Dessner collabs and Maroon that MAKE this album iconic for me. I don't love the production on all of the songs, but the production on Maroon is just PERFECT. It's lush, it's got that sadgirl dance music vibe that I live for. Mark Ronson has a sadgirl dance album called Late Night Feelings that I'm a huge fan of and Maroon reminds me of a track from that album. Just, this smooth electronic vibe that would play well in a club but also plays well as sitting in your room alone wallowing in sad music. Is it my favorite Taylor song of all of them? No, that's still ivy, but Maroon is in the top tier. Like, if all the songs on Midnights are drowning and I can only save one, I'm saving Maroon. That's a real fuckin' legacy.

3. Garth Brooks - Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)

goddammit Garth, i can't drop a youtube or even a spotify link to this one because of your dumb exclusivity contracts. that being said, I recently switched from spotify to amazon music (bought a vinyl from amazon, they gave me 3 free months of amazon music as a gift, and well, why pay 12 bucks a month for spotify when I'm getting it for free from amazon music? And even after the three months it only goes up to like 8 dollars or something, AND, it's Garth Brooks' exclusive streaming platform. SO NOW I CAN LISTEN TO GARTH AGAIN.

My favorite thing about Garth (aside from his music, which is just excellent and classic and such beautifully crafted classic Americana) is that every few years the ignorant conservative segment of the country music fanbase re-discovers anew that Garth is, in fact, as the Fox News pundits say while clutching pearls, "woke." They need to be reminded that he wrote "We Shall Be Free" all the way back in 1990 with lyrics that very explicitly praise racial diversity and support queer people.

At the moment the dummies are mad because Garth won't stop serving Bud Light in his bar, has said transphobes are not welcome, and his reaction to conservatives putting down DEI programs is to say "Diversity and inclusion are what I am all about," essentially. Garth is old school country in the vein of Willie and Dolly and Emmylou and Loretta, just younger, sneaking in at the tail end of the old school outlaw country when it was less about the sort of conservative shit-kickin that emerged in the 90-now and you had Willie Nelson doing Farm Aid and Dolly Parton giving books to all the kids in her state, and Johnny Cash singing for prisoners. Garth is so much more alike that crew even if they're not his generation, than he is with buffoons like Travis Tritt who were his actual contemporaries He's always been a real ally, his sister is a lesbian and let me tell you, as an 11 year old daughter of a lesbian in 1990 when a guy like Garth is singing GAY RIGHTS while you live in the pseudo-South of Florida? Big fuckin deal.

On top of that, his music's just gorgeous. Romantic in all the senses of the word. Conveying yearning in ways that make my chest ache. This song has resonated with me all my life, honestly, I've always felt older than my years, but especially now that I'm a sick person. It makes me cry.

Like my ultimate ultimate dream for Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version) is for one of her collabs on a vault track to be with Garth Brooks, because they are really respectively the biggest country stars of their generations, achieving that huge GLOBAL success that pulls in people who aren't even a fan of the country genre, simply by writing music that really appeals to people's hearts and souls. I love when I can tell a songwriter is a hopeless romantic, and Garth definitely is. There's a vulnerability and tenderness to his ballads especially.

4. Tori Amos - Digital Ghost

there's a lot of theories as to who this song is about, but I really honestly don't care about any of them. Tori songs are poetry more than lyrics, meant to be open to multiple interpretations, and really, no interpretation is necessarily right or wrong. Tori herself says this: she says that when she puts a song out into the world, it no longer belongs to her, and it becomes something different to every listener. She's talked about meeting fans who gush about a song and what it meant to them, and sometimes she's like, "yeah, absolutely, i was thinking the same thing too," but very often her reaction was also "huh. well. if that's how you see it, I'm glad it's useful to you!" She has acknowledged a lot of fans get meaning from her song that were never a part of her meaning, but she also acknowledges that it doesn't make the fans' meaning of a song less valid. Music is like that.

So do I really know what this song is about, specifically, or who? I've read the theories it's about Trent Reznor, a piece in conversation with NIN's Year Zero album, but idk about all of that. Could be true, could be bullshit. To me? The lyrics feel like Tori is singing TO me. I feel like the Digital Ghost. Actually really considered changing my tumblr url to some version of "digital ghost" that is available, but i hate changing my url because I get so confused when other people do it, hahah, but it's like. She sings of reaching out to someone, someone who seems more comfortable communicating with the world through the internet, through technology:

It started as a joke Just one of my lucks to see If somehow I could reach you So I swam onto your shores Through an open window Only to find you all alone Curled up with machines

and the song goes on to discuss the concept of a person fading away, becoming a ghost of a person more comfortable with machines than with flesh and blood people. It resonates for me on multiple levels. As an introvert, I do like to spend a lot of time alone with my machines. As someone whose dearest friends don't live geographically close, my machines allow me to have any communication at all with my loved ones. I spend so much of my time these days, with my stressed out, unhealthy MS and migraine brain, exhausted beyond belief by a trip to the grocery store, on low-dose chemo with a threadbare immune system so even if i wanted to go out more, it's literally not safe. So I don't go out to dinner and i don't go to baseball games as much and i get walmart grocery pick up so i don't have to walk around a store full of germs. Honestly a very very large part of the reason I sold my Eras tickets was because the thought of being around 80k people legit terrified me on a mental and physical level. It sucks. I wasn't always like this. But MS changed my life forever, and then Covid just magnified it all. I don't know that I'll ever be able to enjoy things like going out to eat anymore. I've always wanted to go on a cruise; now you couldn't pay me, I know I'd get so sick.

So i feel like a Digital Ghost. Curled up with my record player and my computer and my smart TV because they're safer, and the me I was has been fading away for some time now. I'm sounding more emo than I feel, hahah, because honestly sad songs are very therapeutic for me and help me process my own pain. Digital Ghost for me right now is helping me process something heavy, and for the umpteenth time in my life, I feel like Tori is my big sister holding my hand and helping me navigate this wild ride that is womanhood. And I find the achingly sad songs very comforting and cathartic. It's actually often really peppy songs that irritate me lol /is goth

5. Peter Murphy - I'll Fall With Your Knife

So. This is actually my favorite song of all time by anyone, and it has been for 25 years now. When I was 18 and had just moved out of the house and was a sweet little babygoth, I lived in Tampa and clubbed goth-style in Ybor City 4-5 nights a week. Get all gothed up from head to do and go dancing to dramatic and sad gothic/industrial and seeing more boys in dresses than an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race. It was my ritual, it was my church, it was my identity for several years. Putting on the costume (because well, it was. I'm a t-shirt and jeans and no-makeup person naturally. Putting on long black skirts and wearing corset tops and fishnets on my arms and caking on loads of make-up and shaping part of my hair into demonic horns made of coiled up braids while wearing my steel-toed Dr. Martens was a lot of stuff do to in order to get ready. I am not a prissy person by nature so spending an hour to doll up is something I find to be a choice honestly, but I thought the style was pretty and I LOVED the music.

Dancing was my favorite part. South Park's depiction of goth dancing is inaccurate and stupid, lol, and it's hard to explain, but it's prettier than that. And it's also a solo dance. You don't dance with other people, you're not grinding or leading someone else. You're connecting with the music on a pure level and it's about that musical connection, not about looking cute or hooking up. That being said, there was this guy who would dance at the club to all the same songs I liked to dance to and I thought he was sexy as hell. Should have realized a good dancer who is also a guy would be gay as the day is long, but Patrick and I became good friends after my thirsty hopes were crushed. Turns out, he had spent the same couple of months thinking I was a good dancer, too! On a platonic level, haha, because he was very much gay, but I liked that we were drawn to each other by something as human and joyous as dancing.

This song. This was the song that had Patrick and me dropping our drinks and bolting for the dance floor the second we heard the first opening note. It was OUR song. And we didn't dance with each other, because again: goth dancing is a solo venture. But we danced next to each other so many times and sang at the top of our lungs together, and never more so than to I'll Fall With Your Knife.

It's just a quintessential goth song. Forget Marilyn Manson, even back in 1996 I knew he was a poser making shit music and trying to pass it off as goth when it was just dumb shock rock that had none of the soul and spirit of real gothic/industrial, and also, tbh, was extremely derivative to the point of being plagiaristic. He was doing exactly what Skinny Puppy had been doing for decades, only Puppy did it much better and with less rape obsession. Brian Warner is a pervert obsessed with Nazis and subjugating and abusing women. Skinny Puppy was a band called that because they're sensitive dudes who love animals and their pet cause (no pun intended) is to stop animal experimentation, specifically vivisection. It makes me sad and angry that the world thinks of Brian fucking Warner as representative of the goths and industrial music, because gothic/industrial is a counterculture genre that challenges oppression. There's a reason Trent Reznor almost immediately regretted knowing the asshole.

But Peter Murphy? The lead singer of Bauhaus? Writing this achingly romantic song about love, goth style? This is what pulled the goth kids to the dance floor. And when it was played at full blast in the big club speakers it was just beyond beautiful. The flood does indeed wash all over you.

Well, if the birds can reach the sky To this land, I'll be with you 'Til the sun bursts from your side With my hands I reach to you Well, you think your chance is passing by Well, you blow your moon away I'll bleed like the reed Fall with your knife It's here, I'll be with you

fucking beautiful words. romance so lovely and scarlet and joyously melancholy.

Incidentally, there is another artist who I absolutely adore who also claims this as their favorite song of all time: Sarah McLachlan. She's a brilliant musician so that makes me feel like i got taste that we have the same favorite song ever lol

[maxbytes]

Imagine: Kimberly Brooks (Jasper's va if you didn't know) voicing Susie from Deltarune (Telling you this because I saw you rb some deltarune fanart once)

i can hear it clearly and it fits

[whats-in-a-sentence]

While following in Leichhardt's footsteps up the Burdekin in 1859, he found himself in high basalt country that had provoked another of the German explorer's lyrical outbursts:

We discovered an extensive valley with large lagoons and lakes, and a most luxuriant vegetation, bounded by blue distant ranges, and forming the most picturesque landscape we had yet met with. A chain of lagoons connected by a reedy brook followed the outlines of the table land, along the foot of its steep slopes. We descended by a tolerably gentle slope into the valley, and encamped near the reedy brook . . . Water, grass, hills, mountains, plains, forest land; all the elements of a fine pasturing country, were here united.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

The Official Field Greeter to Katmai National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr:  this is chunk (bear 32.) he was the first bear seen when they turned on the  explore.org bear cams the other day at brooks falls in katmai. this pic was taken that day. I have been checking the cams constantly since they were turned on and was lucky enough to see chunk and I was surprised how fat he is already and how good he looks, bear force one ( 747 ) has also been seen in the last week before the cams were tuned on and reportedly looks great. the salmon have not yet begun to run so the bears are scarce so far but keep checking because once the salmon appear so will lots of bears and it will happen soon and quickly. I will post a link to the bear cams  ~ johnny